On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Thorsten Zachmann wrote: > Would it be enough for a GSOC project to create a plugin manager that a > user can use? If not maybe we should put it on a list of stuff as Junjor > Job. There is a KDE-wide widget [1]. The problem is that (for some reason) we use a custom plugins system, meaning that it is not as easy as doing a "new KPluginSelector". But it is also not so much work either, the biggest part would be to edit all "desktop" files to make KPluginInfo work.
Also from what I understood, the configuration file used for KPluginSelector is slightly different than our, it use a KConfig group, and then a key is the plugin name, and the value is false/true, for instance, my katerc looks like this: [Kate Plugins] kate_kttsd=false katefilebrowserplugin=true ... While we have something like that: [koffice] ColorSpaceExtensionsPlugins=krita_colorspaces_extensions ColorSpaceExtensionsPluginsDisabled= FlakePlugins=defaulttools,kexirelationdesignshape,textshape FlakePluginsDisabled=divineproportionshape,vectorshape,formulashape This would need to be changed to the KDE format. From what I know it is a question of style. In the end, I don't think it is GSoC material, but can be used for JJ. I would think that for someone who knows Qt/KDE, it is no more than one week full time work (especially with Shantanu's work on a common configuration dialog). Maybe two if there is a hidden issue I have missed :) The other problem we have with plugins (ie that all applications are right now loading tables's libaries through the spreadsheet shape) would probably take longer. But even combining them together would still be not enough for GSoC. That said we could have a GSoC ideas: "Make Calligra applications looks good on first run". That would be: 1) Implement the startup dialog/page as tested by Anna-Liisa (a bit more than a month work) 2) Fix the issue in the plugin system (good plugin default, selection dialog, and load-on-demand) (a bit less than a month work) 3) Proper layout of dockers at startup (for the remaining time) [1] http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs- apidocs/kutils/html/classKPluginSelector.html [2] http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs- apidocs/kdecore/html/classKPluginInfo.html -- Cyrille Berger Skott _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
